Linus Sebastian

Linus Sebastian: Biography in Details

Who is Linus Sebastian?

Linus Sebastian is one of the Canadian YouTube personalities, presenter, and producer. He is also the founder of Linus Media Group.

Moreover, he is also known for his four technology YouTube channels, Linus Tech Tips, Techquickie, TechLinked, LinusCatTips, and likely ShortCircuit.

Linus Sebastian: Age, Parent, Siblings, Ethnicity, Education

Linus was born on August 20, 1986, in Ladner, British Columbia, Canada.

He has four siblings: two sisters, Isabelle and Emily, and two brothers, Asher and George. Likewise, his parents’ names are unknown.

He belongs of Canadian nationality and is of Mixed(German, Spanish, and French) ethnicity.

Talking about his education, he completed his schooling at Garibaldi Secondary School.

Linus Sebastian: Career, Professional life

This YouTuber first created his Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel on November 24, 2008. He recorded an iOS vs Android debate video with fellow tech guru TechnoBuffalo in June 2015.

Before, he used to work as a manager in the now non-existing Canadian online computer store named NCIX. Working as the host to the cameraman there, he uses to help for demonstrating the company’s products.

In addition, the first video he hosted was a demonstration of a Sunbeam processor heatsink.

In a short span, Linus was the top seller of high-end gaming systems. And it offers him a position at the head office in Richmond to take care of the system configurations on the company website.

Working hard he becomes no 1 seller in water cooling parts in Canada. That takes him to the opportunity of managing core business components like motherboards, SSDs, RAM, and networking.

And within a few years, he was promoted to the position of category manager. In 2007, NCIX asked him to host their technology channel, which was created to demonstrate their products and keep up with competitors such as ‘TigerDirect’ and ‘Newegg’ in a rapidly changing market.

Linus posted his first-ever video on July 24 of that year. Sebastian launched ‘LinusTechTips’ on November 24, 2008. Likely,  A third Channel, ‘Channel Super Fun’, was created on May 28, 2014.

Working in NCIX, he met Luke Lafreniere (aka SlickPC). They started to work together and create ’Techquickie’ in early 2012.

Sebastian and Lafreniere, also used Twitch since 2012, to live stream ‘The Wan Show’. The show is based on discussions on the latest news in the technology world and Q&As.

As of early June 2017, the show had aired 184 episodes. A few of the other projects he and his company have worked on over the years are, ‘Whole Room Water Cooling’ (2014-2015), ‘Scrapyard Wars’ (2015-Present), ‘7 Gamers 1 CPU’ (2015-2016), and ‘8/10 Gamers, 1 CPU’ (2016).

In April 2018, the Linus Tech Tips channel uploads a video claiming that Apple refuses to repair his iMac Pro (paid, non-warranty repairs) after the damage.

Furthermore, in December 2018, Linus Tech Tips releases a four-part series detailing their experience buying a gaming PC from 6 System Integrators (SI) representing 3 different market tiers.

Later, he releases two major manufacturers (HP and Alienware), likely two high-volume SI (iBuyPower and CyberPowerPC), and two upscale boutique SI (Origin PC and Maingear). The series gains over 12 million views and also appear on the cover of PC Gamer magazine.

In January 2020, Sebastian said that he was retiring but later confirmed that he isn’t retiring at this time.

How much does Linus Sebastian earn in 2024?

Being unsuccessful per personality net worth is $2.5 million as of 2024.

He owns different brands of cars like the BMW 1 Series, Toyota, Renault, and many more.

Likely, the net worth of Linus Media Group has a monthly income of $126,000.

Linus Sebastian: Rumor, Controversy

Linus doesn’t get involved in any such activities that can create any rumors of controversies about the star in the media.

Body Measurement: Height, Weight

Linus Sebastian has a built body standing with a height of 6 ft 1 in (185.5 cm). Likely, his weight is 76 kg (167.5 lbs)

He has light brown colored hair and dark brown colored eyes.

Is Linus Sebastian active on social media?

He is active on Instagram with over 1M followers and around 1M followers on Twitter. He also has a TikTok account which has around 2K followers but in his TikTok account, he hasn’t published only one video yet.

Likely, his Facebook page also holds around 15K followers. Furthermore, he has his own YouTube channel named, Linus Tech Tips with 11.9M subscribers.

Moreover, his other youtube channels include Techquickie with 3.59 million subscribers, likely TechLinked with 1.3 million subscribers, ShortCircuit with 1.04 million subscribers, also Channel Super Fun with 779 thousand subscribers, and LinusCatTips with 242 thousand subscribers.

Likely his other channel LMG Clips has 201 thousand subscribers, and lastly, Carpool Critics amasses 56.2 thousand subscribers.

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